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TV This Week for June 23 - 29: ‘Anna Nicole’ on Lifetime

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This week’s TV Movies

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SUNDAY

Don’t look down. Seriously. “Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda” finds the Niagara Falls-traversing aerialist up on a tightrope high above the Grand Canyon. 5 and 8 p.m. Discovery

Butcher, baker … medical-marijuana grower? “Super Size Me’s” Morgan Spurlock tries on a variety of hats in his new “Inside Man.” 7 and 10 p.m. CNN

Like a modern-day Adam and Eve, one man and one woman will be stranded in the middle of nowhere without so much as a fig leaf in the new survival challenge “Naked & Afraid.” 7:20 and 10:40 p.m. Discovery

Borders, schmorders. “Prison Break’s” William Fitchner is “Crossing Lines” in this new drama about an international team of cops chasing after bad guys gone global. With Donald Sutherland. 9 p.m. NBC

Murder most foul! And 13 amateur sleuths will descend on the ominously named Rue Manor to try to figure out “Whodunnit?” in this new reality competition. 9 p.m. ABC

Country music legend and beard and bandanna enthusiast Willie Nelson celebrates his 80th birthday — with a little help from Neil Young, Norah Jones, et al. — on a new “CMT Crossroads.” 9:02 p.m. CMT

“Copper” is back on the beat. Tom Weston-Jones reprises his role as Det. Kevin Corcoran and Donal Logue and Alfre Woodard join the cast when this crime drama set in 1860s NYC returns. 7, 8, 9 and 10 p.m. BBC America

One more year! One more year! “Veep,” the D.C.-set satire starring the indispensable Julia Louis-Dreyfus, finishes its second season already renewed for a third. 10 p.m. HBO

Good help is hard to find: Ana Ortiz, Roselyn Sánchez and Judy Reyes are “Devious Maids” in this sure-to-be-scandalous new drama from “Desperate Housewives’” creator Marc Cherry and Eva Longoria. 10 p.m. Lifetime

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MONDAY

Abbey Curran, the first disabled person to compete in Miss USA pageant and an advocate for special-needs girls and young women, is saluted in “Miss You Can Do It.” 9 p.m. HBO

Dome is where you hang your hat, dome is where the heart is, and “Under the Dome” is where an entire New England town is mysteriously imprisoned in this new science fiction drama based on the Stephen King novel. 10 p.m. CBS

The ministrations of a funeral director serving Harlem’s African American community are detailed in “Homegoings” on the season premiere of “POV.” 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

Replace “Breaking Bad’s” meth-making chem teacher with a drug-dealing dentist, and you might end up with something like the true-crime tale “King of Coke: Living the High Life.” 9 and 11 p.m. Nat Geo

Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander are back as our favorite crime-solving gal pals on the return of “Rizzoli & Isles,” followed by the return of the procedural drama “Perception” starring Eric McCormack. 9 and 10 p.m. TNT

Fields of fear: The rape and sexual assault of female migrant workers in the U.S. is examined on a new “Frontline.” 10 p.m. KOCE

WEDNESDAY

Another summer, another “Big Brother.” The long-running reality competition is back for its 15th go-round. Julie Chen hosts. 8 p.m. CBS

From Bond, James Bond to Bueller, Ferris Bueller, the all-time “Coolest Movie Characters” are counted down in this new special. Although if you ask us, Ferris was kind of a jerk. 8 p.m. TVGN

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The sitcom “How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)” offers the last episode of the rest of its very short life. Sarah Chalke starred. 9:30 p.m. ABC

THURSDAY

Get used to it: Openly gay celebrities — including Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres and Wanda Sykes — and others share their stories in “The Out List.” 9:30 p.m. HBO

“Presumed Dead” … or very much alive? Two true-life tales, of a teen thought killed in a car crash and a missing mom, are explored in this special. 10 p.m. OWN

FRIDAY

Leapin’ lizards! “Annie: It’s the Hard-Knock Life, From Script to Stage” goes behind the scenes of the recent Broadway revival of the hit musical based on the comic strip. 9 p.m. KOCE

Get a taste of what makes this country great when writer-performer Anna Deavere Smith, opera singer Renée Fleming and others join chef Lidia Bastianich for an especially patriotic edition of “Lidia Celebrates America.” 10 p.m. KOCE

SATURDAY

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From a Texas strip club to a millionaire’s mansion to the pages of Playboy and the tabloids to reality TV, the sad saga of Anna Nicole Smith (Agnes Bruckner, pictured) is recounted in the new docudrama “Anna Nicole.” 8 p.m. Lifetime

They’re getting the band back together: “American Idol’s’?” Brooke White plays a dutiful daughter who reunites with her singing siblings to headline her hometown’s holiday celebration in the TV movie “Banner 4th of July.” 9 p.m. Hallmark

Moonshine flows, blood follows, in director John Hillcoat’s brutal 2012 Prohibition-era crime tale “Lawless.” Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain star. 9 p.m. Showtime

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